These Bourbon Brown Sugar Pumpkin Seeds are a yummy and more grown up take on roasted pumpkin seeds you make with the kids.

I’m not the biggest fan of Halloween.

Perhaps it’s because as a kid where I lived it was either too freaking hot for your costume or too freaking cold. It made trick or treating not so much fun.

Also I don’t like scary things.

At all.

Except shark movies.

I love that.

And I am officially zombied out.

I mean when a zombie is in a mobile phone commercial you know it’s reached its peak and it’s time to move on.

The one thing I do love of course is the fun sized candy (though this year I am not buying candy until the last minute…I’m trying to be good).

The other thing is carving pumpkins.

As kids we did this every year and then of course keep the seeds.

My mom would make us kids sit and separate out the pumpkin goo from the seeds and place them onto a plate.

Then we would soak them in salt water and bake them off.

The way I tend to get the seeds now is from roasting pumpkins.

These seeds come out of sugar pie pumpkins that I used for a snack cake and bread pudding (yes those recipes will be up).

If you have never roasted your own pumpkin it’s a wonderful thing to do.

Anyway, I saved the seeds and a friend of mine mentioned that her dad used to soak theirs in bourbon.

And that sounded like a fun and different way to make the seeds.

I like to dry my seeds out a full day before I do anything to them.

I think it helps with the crunch, especially when putting them into a wet mix.

To be honest, I have no idea what would happen if you skipped that step.

Be sure to use decent bourbon (I found a good one that is the Trader Joe’s brand) as cheap booze equals not so good tasting in recipes…quality in…quality out.

The good news is that you still have over a full month of pumpkin baking to happen, especially with Thanksgiving being later this year.

So start scooping out pumpkin guts and get to making some seeds!

Last but not least…it’s a great time to order my cookbook.

Want More Pumpkin Recipes? Try these:

Brown Butter Pumpkin Pie Layer Cake

Pumpkin Butterscotch Cake

Salted Caramel Frosted Pumpkin Cupcakes

Pumpkin Oreo Coffee Cake

Apple Cider Whiskey Glazed Pumpkin Pull Apart Bread